The Free Edition will give you basic but capable functionality forever, no strings attached, while the Antivirus Plus will expand it with several useful features and more efficient ransomware detection.

Whichever you opt for, you won’t end up disappointed. Final verdictīitdefender 2021 has products for various budgets and security requirements. On top of that, it can cover up to five devices, under the one-year license which costs $35.99 for the first-time buyers, rising to $89.99 upon renewal. Total Security also throws in some basic clean-up and optimization tools which allow you to modify individual apps’ booting behavior (enable/disable/delay). If you have enough expertise, the firewall can be tinkered with in detail - setting the rules for ports, protocols, IP addresses, and so on. Bitdefender Internet Security 2021īitdefender Internet Security (opens in new tab) is the product that, in addition to all the features from the Antivirus Plus, comes equipped with a set of parental controls, intelligent firewall, spam filter, webcam hijacking protection that allows you to control apps’ access to your web camera, and microphone usage monitoring to check which apps are using your mic at the moment and to stop those doing so without authorization. That said, the program also installs a bunch of other background processes, services, drivers, and so on, that might drain the resources and impact performance.Ī one-year license for Antivirus Plus on three devices will cost you $23.99 for the first term, renewing at $59.99. Chrome users will be asked whether or not they want to install it on their preferred browser. Firefox and Internet Explorer will also get the Wallet extension (password manager).

Installing the Antivirus Plus on your device will automatically add Bitdefender’s Anti-Tracker extension to Google Chrome and Firefox, and it also works on Safari and Internet Explorer.

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